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THE PRIZEImportant DatesSubmission GuidelinesJuryPast WinnersAll Nominees (1994-2025)Board of DirectorsWriters’ CircleOur SupportersOur PartnersMedia ResourcesBETWEEN THE PAGESSCHOLARSHIPEN ApplicationFR ApplicationBOOK CLUBSGiller Book Club#BookTalkCRAVING CANLIT2026202520242023202220212020CONTACTNewsletter Sign-UpBLOG & NEWSDONATE Published On: October 5th, 2026October 5, 2026 (Toronto, ON) – Five formidable Canadian novels have been named to the 2026 Giller Prize shortlist. Representing five publishing imprints, four provinces, and three national bestsellers, these authors stand as a stirring testament to the fearlessness, ingenuity, and revolutionary power of Canadian storytellers as the prize celebrates its 33rd year as the country’s premier fiction award.

The five ED shortlist finalists (left to right): Mark Dybul, Richard Hatchett, Janti Soeripto, Lutz Hegemann, and Joyce Msuya. The shortlist of five finalists to serve as the next Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was published on Wednesday (30 September), launching the final phase of its leadership search.

Here’s your NYT Strands hint for today, plus the spangram and all of today’s Strands answers for puzzle No. 959 on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. Today’s Strands theme was tricky. It helps to be a runner. Read on for all the answers.

A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.

You once played Basil Fawlty in an amateur student production of Fawlty Towers at Queen’s College in Melbourne. How amateur was your Basil Fawlty moustache? It was terrible. It was real but it was definitely coloured in – I still have holes in my beard. I’d also shaved my head, so if you look at the early promo posters, you can clearly see I’m wearing a wig. Our theatre was closed so we had to perform in a circus tent in the middle of winter, on an oval in the university grounds, which was all very Fawlty Towers. I’ve always loved comedy. I didn’t really do anything serious until drama school. I always thought there might be a good spin-off with Sauron and Celebrimbor as an odd-couple situation. You play Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Tolkien wrote that Sauron “represents as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible”. What do you consider wholly evil? A complete disregard for the feelings and wellbeing of other people, to put it simply. It’s the intention, I think. I have horrible flashbacks to playing Aussie rules when I was about 17. I thought people were being quite evil to me at the time.